Cotton-scraper.



PATENTED SEPT. 22. 1903.

I B. H. WIL IAMS,

canon SGRAPBRQ APPLIUATIOK IILED JAN. 14, I903.

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PATENT OFFICE. I

COTTON-SCRAPER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 739,528, dated September 22, 1903.

Application filed January 14,1903. Serial No. 139 058. N m del- To a, whom it may concern:

Be it known that LBENJAMINE F. WILLI Ms, a citizen of the United States,residing at Ethel, in the county of Arkansas and State of Arkansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cotton-Scrapers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as willenable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to cotton-scrapers; and it consists of certain novel features of combination and construction of parts, the preferred form whereof will be clearly set forth in the following specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which are made a part of this application.

The object of my invention, among others, is to provide an applianceof simple construction which will prove reliably efficient-in character in the performance of the work required of it and the parts of which may be very cheaply manufactured and readily assembled each in its respective operative position ready for use.

Other objects and advantages will be. hereinafter set forth, reference being'had to the drawings, in which Figure 1 is a'pcrspective view of my in vention complete ready for use. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view showing the inner face of the moldboard or scraper-plate employedby me. my cotton-scraper complete, as shown in Fig.

1, while Fig. 4 is a detail view showing securing plates employed to hold the moldboard in place.

In carryingout my invention the various details will be designated by numerals, the same numeral applying to a similar part throughout the several views.

Referring to the numerals on the drawings,

Fig. 3 is a front elevation of.

one part of the forward end of the base-section 4, or said moldboard may be pivotally connected to the standard 3, as by means of the eyebolts 6, extending through the clips 7, carried by the rear side of the moldboard, and multiplied in number as may be desired. The eyebolts 6 are passed through an aperture in the extension or bracket 8, carried by the standard 3,- and in order that the moldboard may be held in the desired adjusted position I provide the turnbuckle 9, the ends of which engage the threaded ends of the arms 10 and 11, the latter one of said arms being connected to a contiguous part of the outer edge of the moldboard 5, while the arm 11 is secured to the base-section 4, as clearly shown in Fig. 1. The moldboard being thus pivotally connected to the standard 3 through the mediation of the bracket 8 or the equivalent thereof may be freely adjusted so that it will occupy the desired degree of inclination, as will be readily understood from the forego ing description, inasmuch as a proper'rotation of the turnbuckle 9 will secure such adjustment of the moldboard as will be productive of the best-results. In like manner I have provided a suitable form of handles 12, which in this instance are secured to the adjustment-plate 13, held in place by the bolt let and provided at its rear end and lower side with a plurality of serrations 15, designed to fit into and cooperate with similar serrations 16, formed upon the bracket 17, carried by the rear end of the beam 1, and it is obvious that by loosening the bolts 14 and 18 the handlcs maybe set as desired. As hereinbefore stated, in some instances I prefer to rigidly connect the moldboard to the standard 3, and thereby wholly dispense with the turnbuckle 9 and the arms and 11, thereby permanently holding the moldboard in its adjusted position. In someinstances, however, the means of adjustment herein described for said moldboard and comprising the turnbuckle 9 and the arms 10 and 11 may be employed to great advantage, and I therefore reserve the right to construct my improved cotton scraper either with or without the turnbuckle attachment, as I may prefer in practice so to do. I

While I have described the preferred comidly bolted to the standard 3 and a contigubination and construction of parts deemed necessary in carrying out my invention, I desire to comprehend such equivalents and substitutes as may fall fairly within the scope of my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1 In a cotton-scraper, a beam, standards depending therefrom, a base-section at the lower end of said standards with its outer surface curved, a moldboard disposed transversely of said base-section and secured to the forward standard, and means connecting the rear face of the outer edge of said moldboard with said base-section between the standards.

2. In a cotton-scraper, a beam, standards depending therefrom, a base-section at the lower end of said standards with its outer surface curved, a moldboard disposed transversely of said base-section and secured to the forward standard, and mea'nsOOnnecting the rear face of the outer edge of said moldboard with said base-section between the standards, said means being provided with an adjusting device, as and for the purpose specified;

3. In a cotton-scraper, a beam having integral standards and base-section in vertical alinement with the beam, and a bracket projecting laterally from the forward standard and curved, a moldboard pivotally connected to said bracket, and arms joining the outer edge of the rear face of the moldboard with the basesection between the standards, and a turnbuckle connecting the adjacent ends of said arms.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature 

